Boston Celtics at Brooklyn Nets
Team Totals: Celtics 109.8, Nets 121.8
Injury Report: Kemba Walker (D, knee), Robert Williams (D, foot/ankle), Jeff Green (O, foot), Alize Johnson (O, ankle)
Celtics projected starters: Marcus Smart, Romeo Langford, Evan Fournier, Jayson Tatum, Tristan Thompson
Nets projected starters: Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Joe Harris, Kevin Durant, Blake Griffin
Celtics series rotation notes: Jabari Parker picked up some closing minutes over Tristan Thompson, Payton Pritchard closed over Romeo Langford, Aaron Nesmith picked up minutes over Evan Fournier, Fournier didn’t play final 14.5.
Nets series rotation notes: Bruce Brown moved into the Jeff Green role as the closer over Blake Griffin, Landry Shamet didn’t get a boost without Green, Harden staggered away from Kyrie and KD a bit again.
Stevens Quotes: Said he liked the offensive performance all game, said the team was over helping too much to cause so many easy shots for the Nets, said Langford, Nesmith and Payton are getting “invaluable experience” but they did make some mistakes, basically hinted he’s just going to play his best guys and not worry about development, said their adjustments were not good because they were scrambling too much (said before he wants his defense to be more in their shell coverage), said the effort was great but they just didn’t execute.
Nash Quotes: Said they were really trying to run more action but they were still great in isolation, said his money was on Kyrie after a bad Game 3, said James Harden was great at punishing doubles and in PNR to find open guys, said he kept his guys in late because they were a little sloppy, said they didn’t play Claxton much because the Celtics went small (more Bruce Brown).
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